Plays the ABC Could Have Filmed

 Plays by successful Australian expat authors with Australian links:

* Alec Coppel - A Rum Affair, (or non Oz-set ones like I Killed the Count, Mr Smart Guy)

* Sumner Locke Elliott - Daisy Daisy, The Crater, Wicked Is the Vine

*Henry Joyce- The Bunyip, The Crock of Gold

*Bruce Stewart - The Watchmen of Saul, Day of the Drongo, Jungle Juice

*Alan Seymour -Lean Liberty, 31 Backyards

*Noel Robinson - The Tilted Screen, All Out for Kangaroo Valley

* Peter Yeldham - Thunder on the Snowy, East of Christmas, Reunion Day, The Cabbage Hat Boys, Stella

Verse plays done by ABC radio

* Morris West - The Illusionist

*Richard Lane - Stockade

Solid radio plays

*Richard Lane - The Remittance Man 

*Rex Rienits - Bligh Had a Daughter, Mary Reiby, The Last Outlaw

Plays Done on UK TV

*Rain Before Seven by Joyce Dennys, Granite Peak by Betty Roland, Countown at Woomera, Flag Fall by Royston Morley, Goodbye Johnny

 Novels That Could Have Been Filmed:

* The Mystery of the Hansom Cab, Robbery Under Arms, For the Term of His Natural Life, The Harp in the South

Stage Plays That Could Have Been Filmed

*The Torrents (was eventually done)

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